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Head of Sociology, Philosophy and Anthropology
Professor Robert Lamb	Professor of Political Philosophy	Amory

Academic staff
Dr Celso Alves Neto	Lecturer (Philosophy) Philosophy of Biology; Philosophy of Race; Classification Systems; Social Epistemology of Science;	Byrne House
Professor Suchith Anand	Professor of Practice in Science Policy	Byrne House
Dr Sally Atkinson	Lecturer (Sociology) Scientific knowledge, interdisciplinarity, political economy, ethnography, biomedicine, neurodegenerative disease, digital technologies, data science, disease experience, aging	Amory
Dr Alexander Badman-King	Lecturer (Philosophy) Animal ethics (the ethics of non-human life and minds – including artificial minds), the ethics of gardening and farming, metaphilosophy (particularly Philosophy as a Way of Life), ancient Greek philosophy, the philosophy of anthropology/participant observation, Big History, the philosophy of religion, transhumanism.	North Cloisters
Professor Kate Bailey	Professor of Practice in Research Governance and Partnerships	Byrne House
Professor Alexey Bessudnov	Associate Professor (Sociology) Ethnic groups and hierarchies; ethnicity; inequalities in education; National Pupil Database; social stratification; Russia; statistical methods; field experiments; survey data; R	Clayden
Professor Katharine Boyd	Associate Professor (Criminology) Political and religiously motivated violence, counterterrorism policy, evidence-based policy, domestic abuse, alcohol related violence, police use of force	Clayden
Dr Lewys Brace	Senior Lecturer in Computational Social Science (Criminology) Extremism, Terrorism, Online Extremism, Cybercrime, Cyberterrorism, Cyberwarfare, Open-Source Intelligence, OSINT, Data Science, Social Data Science, Python, Natural Language Processing, NLP, text data
Professor Angela Cassidy	Associate Professor in Science and Technology Studies Science and policy; public engagement; science communication; environment; agriculture; animal health; animal studies; bovine TB; history of science, technology and medicine; conservation; knowledge controversies; interdisciplinarity; infectious diseases.	Lazenby House
Professor Giovanna Colombetti	Professor (Philosophy) Embodied mind; enactivism; extended mind; situated cognition; emotion; affect; feelings; phenomenology; body; material culture	Amory
Dr Susannah Crockford	Lecturer (Anthropology) Anthropology; Environment; Medicine; Religion	Amory
Professor Adrian Currie	Associate Professor in Philosophy General Philosophy of Science; Philosophy of Biology; Philosophy of Historical Science; Social Epistemology	Byrne House
Dr Jonathan Davies	Lecturer (Philosophy)	Amory
Professor Tia DeNora	Professor (Sociology of Music) Music, wellbeing, mental health, palliative care, emotion, aesthetic ecology	Amory
Professor Julien Dugnoille	Associate Professor (Anthropology) Human-animal interactions, Anthrozoology, South Korea, 'wetmarkets', urban anthropology, dogs, cats, meat, slaughter, animal death, commodification, resistance, intersectionality, France, Critical Animal Studies	Byrne House
Professor John Dupré	Director of Egenis, Professor (Philosophy of Science) Philosophy of Biology, Philosophy of Science, Process philosophy, Metaphysics, Human Nature, Taxonomy, Evolution, Microbiology, Art and Science	Byrne House
Professor Abi Dymond	Associate Professor (Criminology) Use of force, police, places of detention, less lethal weapons, Taser, electric-shock weapons, detention monitoring, torture prevention, human rights, evidence-based policing, science and technology studies.
Dr Fenella Eason	Lecturer in Anthrozoology	North Cloisters
Dr Steven Emery	Senior Lecturer Farmers, Cultural Values, Agri-environment schemes, Cooperation, Collaboration, Landscape, Governance, Political Economy, Phenomenology, Rhetoric, Experiential Knowledge, Food Systems, Rural Community	Lazenby House
Dr Douglas Farrer	Lecturer in Criminology Crime scene photography, narrative criminology, visual anthropology, martial arts studies	Amory
Dr Hannah Farrimond	Senior Lecturer (Sociology) Social practices, symbolic meanings in relation to addiction, stigma and public health inc. alcohol, smoking, e-cigarettes, vaping, active ageing, cannabis. pharmaceuticals/medications.	Byrne House
Dr Ashley Frayling	Lecturer (Criminology)	Amory
Dr Shane Glackin	Senior Lecturer (Philosophy)	Amory
Professor Judith Green	Professor of Sociology sociology of medicine; public understanding of health; critical public health; risk; mobility; sociology of transport; health professions; accidents; qualitative methodology; evaluation methodology; urban health; environments; evidence	Wellcome Centre for Cultures and Environments of Health
Dr Jessica Groling	Lecturer in Anthrozoology	North Cloisters
Dr Stephan Guttinger	Lecturer (Philosophy of Data/Data Ethics) Philosophy of Data; Philosophy of Experimentation; Replication Crisis; Philosophy of Biology; Biomedical ethics; Genome editing	Byrne House
Professor Christine Hauskeller	Professor (Philosophy and Sociology) Philosophy and Psychedelics; Ethics; Philosophy of Medicine; Critical Theory; Decoloniality; Feminist Philosophy; Bioethics and Biopolitics; Philosophy of Science and Technology.	Byrne House
Professor Alex Hillman	Associate Professor	Wellcome Centre for Cultures and Environments of Health
Dr Geoffrey Hughes	Senior Lecturer (Anthropology) Jordan and the Middle East; Kinship; Personhood; Marriage; Gender; Emotions and Affect; The Anthropology of Islam; Political Economy; The State; Institutions; Infrastructure; Science and Technology Studies	Amory
Professor Samantha Hurn	Associate Professor (Anthropology) anthrozoology, human-animal interactions, morethanhuman anthropology, veterinary anthropology, veterinary care, palliative care, euthanasia, animal death, feeding animals, animal welfare, quality of life, dogs, companion animals, pigs, elephants, zoos, soundscapes, bioacoustics, rodents, mice, horses, primates, baboons, Chacma baboons, rhinos, rhino poaching, human-wildlife conflict, fox hunting, sheep, farming, ritual, veganism, meat, monasticism, Hinduism, eco-tourism, dog rescue, animal rights activism, South Africa, Romania, Swaziland, Wales	North Cloisters
Professor Joel Krueger	Associate Professor (Philosophy) Phenomenology; philosophy of cognitive science; embodied cognition; extended cognition; social cognition; emotions; self; philosophy of psychiatry; phenomenological psychopathology; comparative philosophy; philosophy of music; pragmatism	Amory
Professor Sabina Leonelli	Professor of Philosophy and History of Science Open Science, data science and data-intensive research, Big and Open Data, experimental organisms, epistemic injustice, plant science, data ethics and fairness, bio-ontologies, metadata, biology, plants, crops, epidemiology, public health, data science, data semantics and classification, knowledge infrastructures, embodied and indigenous knowledge, scientific modelling, abstraction and idealisation, organisation and governance of research, science policy, public engagement, research communication	Byrne House
Professor Matt Lobley	Professor of Rural Resource Management, Director of the CRPR Sociology of agriculture; Health and well-being in agriculture; succession and retirement; land and agri-environmental management; agricultural restructuring.	Lazenby House
Dr Rebecca Lynch	Lecturer anthropology of the body and biomedicine; medical anthropology; bodies; bodily boundaries; fluid bodies; bodies and environments; the body in parts; biomedicine; biomedical categories; health technology; inequalities; 'lived experience' in medicine; the lifecourse; the NHS; morality; religion; Trinidad; Christianity; place-based health inequalities
Professor Charles Masquelier	Associate Professor (Sociology) environmental sociology, rural sociology, social theory, humanity-nature relations, critical theory, intersectionality theory, social movements, neoliberalism, socialism, worker cooperatives	Amory
Dr Narzanin Massoumi	Senior Lecturer (Criminology) Social movements, political repression, racism, Islamophobia, state power, corporate power, counter-terrorism policy, human rights, big data, digital surveillance
Dr Cecilia Meneghini	Lecturer (Criminology) Organised crime, violence diffusion, criminal networks, illicit markets, life-course criminology, peer effects, quantitative methodologies, longitudinal methodologies.
Professor Mike Michael	Professor (Anthropology and Sociology) science and technology studies; sociologies of everyday life; technoscience; biotechnological and biomedical innovation; the public understanding of science; public engagement with science and technology; process and qualitative methodology; big data; social theory; environmental sociology; animals and society.	Amory
Dr Silvia Milano	Senior Lecturer (Philosophy of Data/Data Ethics)	Byrne House
Professor Susan Molyneux-Hodgson	Professor of Sociology, Associate Dean of Research science, technology and everyday practice; technoscience and society; epistemic communities; interdisciplinary research and collaboration; responsible research and innovation; qualitative research.	Byrne House
Dr Kawa Morad	Lecturer (Anthropology) Anthropology of the Middle East, specific focus on cultural politics, history and memory, mobility and movement, refugees, and forced migration.	Amory
Dr Paul O'Connor	Senior Lecturer (Sociology) Skateboarding, Sociology of Religion, Hong Kong, Pilgrimage, Rhythmanalysis, Hybridity, Lifestyle Religion, Islam, Hajj, Quantum Sociology, Digital Detox	Amory
Dr Nitzan Peri-Rotem	Senior Lecturer (Sociology and Q Step) Fertility; Family Sociology and Demography; Reproductive Health; Assisted Reproductive Technologies; Gender; Religion and Ethnicity; Quantitative Research Methods; Life Course Analysis	Clayden
Dr Chris Playford	Senior Lecturer (Sociology) Social Stratification, Sociology of Education, Family Background, Quantitative Methods, Survey Data, Administrative Data, Longitudinal Data Analysis, Categorical Data Analysis, Latent Class Analysis	Clayden
Dr Nigel Pleasants	Senior Lecturer in Philosophy and Sociology Social and moral philosophy: Moral psychology (moral perception, moral responsibility, moral ignorance, institutional wrongdoing); Moral change, moral progress; Moral agency and social/historical context; Philosophy of the social sciences; The Holocaust, genocide and slavery; Animal ethics; The badness of death and wrongness of killing; Wittgenstein	Amory
Dr Celia Plender	Lecturer (Anthropology) Care, mutual aid, everyday politics, community organising, cooperatives, austerity, social movements, food and housing insecurity, social anthropology, anthropology of Britain, anthropology of food.	Lazenby House
Professor Brian Rappert	Professor (Sociology) Secrecy, disclosure, expertise, data, crime, magic, revelation	Amory
Professor Tom Rice	Associate Professor in Anthropology Anthropology, sound, auditory culture, acoustemology, human-animal interactions, anthrozoology, bioacoustics, sound recording, sound editing, sound art, sound composition, sound studies, institutions, surveillance, medicine, medical anthropology	Amory
Dr Tom Roberts	Senior Lecturer (Philosophy) Extended mind; emotion; cognition; consciousness; embodiment	Amory
Professor Ginny Russell	Associate Professor (Sociology) Sociology of diagnosis, health. Psychiatry; epidemiology; developmental psychology, especially neuro-studies, autism, child mental health, neurodiversity, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, dementia, dyslexia, neurodevelopmental and neurodegenerative disorders. Quantitative methods, longitudinal data analysis, secondary data sources. Qualitative methods especially thematic analysis.	Byrne House
Professor Michael Schillmeier	Professor (Sociology) Bodies, Senses, Things; Health, Illness and Dis/ability; Art and Intervention; Speculative Research; Cosmopolitics; Empirical Philosophy	Amory
Dr Astrid Schrader	Senior Lecturer (Sociology and Philosophy) Feminist science studies, environmental STS, STS theory, new materialisms, human-animal relations, technology-human-animal relations, nonhuman temporalities, biopolitics, environment & society, anthropocentrism, marine microbes, care, responsibility, environmental justice, feminist continental philosophy (especially Derrida), biodeconstruction.	Byrne House
Dr Ernesto Schwartz-Marin	Lecturer (Sociology) Citizen-Led Science Biomedicine, Genomics Forensics, Race and Nation Data Justice Participatory Science and Technology Studies	Byrne House
Dr Stuart Scrase	Lecturer (Sociology)	Amory
Dr Edward Skidelsky	Senior Lecturer (Philosophy) Ernst Cassirer, Twentieth-century German philosophy and social thought, Art as a social practice, Virtue ethics. Ethics and Economics	Amory
Dr Niccolò Tempini	Senior Lecturer (Sociology & Philosophy of Data) data studies, internet studies, big data, social media, surveillance, digital economy, platform economy, crowdsourcing, information systems, electronic health records, personal health records, data-intensive science, data practices, evidence, classification systems, systems engineering, data management, data governance, data ethics, data infrastructures, information infrastructures, knowledge infrastructures, precision medicine, patient-led research ×	Byrne House
Dr Christopher Thorpe	Senior Lecturer (Sociology) Social theory, cultural theory, cultural other, Bourdieu, Elias, cultural sociology, Italy, sociology of culture, social work, Field Theory, Deviance, historical cultural sociology, Italian culture, British, representations, discursive representations, social work, sociology, social theory and social work, Yale School, Jeffrey ALexander	Amory
Professor Adam Toon	Associate Professor (Philosophy) Philosophy of science, Philosophy of mind, Scientific models, Fictionalism, Extended mind thesis, Sociology of Scientific Knowledge	Byrne House
Professor Katharine Tyler	Professor (Anthropology) Race, ethnicity, whiteness, Britishness, social class, legacies of empire, race and genomics	Amory
Dr Kirsten Walsh	Lecturer (Philosophy) Early Modern Philosophy, Isaac Newton, HPS, Philosophy of Science, Methodology	Amory
Professor Harry G West	Professor of Anthropology, Director of Research Socio-cultural anthropology: political anthropology; agrarian social history; the anthropology of food. Food Studies: food, farming, and cultural heritage; artisan foodmaking, especially cheesemaking; food, memory and inter-generational sociality.	Lazenby House
Dr Sam Wilkinson	Senior Lecturer (Philosophy) Psychiatry; mental illness; psychosis; delusions; voice hearing; inner speech; predictive processing	Byrne House
Professor Dana Wilson-Kovacs	Associate Professor (Sociology) Digital forensics, forensic cultures, practices and occupations, policing, crime investigation, evidence, expertise, professional trajectories, organisational change, ethnography, qualitative methods, sex, gender and sexuality	Amory

Research Fellows
Dr Jenny Barke	Research & Impact Fellow
Emilia Belknap	Postdoctoral Research Associate
Catherine Broomfield	Postgraduate Research Associate	Lazenby House
Tyler Brunet	Research Fellow Philosophy of Biology (Molecular Biology, Evolution); Philosophy of Science (Causation, Ontology); Philosophy of Mathematics (Logic, Category Theory).	Byrne House
Dr Jose Canada	Research Fellow science and technology studies; public engagement with science and technology; knowledge production; ethnography; qualitative methodologies; social theory; more-than-human approaches; interspecies relations; intersectionality; public health; One Health; policy	Lazenby House
Dr Paola Castaño	Research Fellow	Byrne House
Dr Arely Cruz-Santiago	Research Fellow	Byrne House
Miss Aditi Dutta	PDRA (TWICEASGOOD)	Knightley
Dr Dreolin Fleischer	Research Fellow
Dr Eleanor Hadley Kershaw	Senior Research Fellow	Lazenby House
Dr Rosalie Jones-McVey	Research Fellow
Dr Rhiannon Lane	Research Fellow
Dr Cristian Montenegro	Research Fellow	Wellcome Centre for Cultures and Environments of Health
Dr Caroline Nye	Senior Research Fellow	Lazenby House
Dr Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes	Research Fellow in the project 'Philosophy and Psychedelics' psychedelics, panpsychism, process philosophy, monism, Spinozism.	Amory
Dr Georgia Smith	Research Fellow	Amory
Dr Bethan Stagg	Research Fellow	Baring Court
Dr Emily Stone	EASE Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Anthrozoology)
Virginia Thomas	Postdoctoral Research Fellow Human-animal studies, science and technology studies, environmental policy, one-health.
Dr Rose Trappes	Research Fellow	Byrne House
Dr Rebecca Wheeler	Senior Research Fellow Agriculture; Environment; Farmer wellbeing; Rural communities	Lazenby House
Dr Timothy Wilkinson	Research Fellow	Lazenby House

Associate Research Fellows
Dr Jennifer Cuffe	Associate Research Fellow
Dr Achim Rosemann	Honorary Research Fellow

Professional Services Staff
Ellie Carter	Administrator	Amory
Melissa Hawkins	PA/Administrator to the Centre of Rural Policy Research Directors	Lazenby House
Chloe Hrycyszyn	Administrator
Miss Chee Wong	Senior Executive Assistant (ESE), Centre Administrator (Egenis)	Byrne House
Alfiya Yermukasheva	Project administrator	Byrne House

Graduate teaching assistants
Mr Jacob Lucas	Graduate Teaching Assistant	Amory
Eimear McLoughlin	Graduate Teaching Assistant Nonhuman Animal Personhood Commodification of Nonhuman Animal Bodies Animal Slaughter Sociology of Emotion Queer Theory Queer Animals Visual Anthropology Sound Anthropology
Ms Rosanna Mead	Graduate Teaching Assistant
Ms Aimee Middlemiss	Graduate Teaching Assistant	Amory
Ms Eva Schurig	Graduate Teaching Assistant	Amory
Ms Elena Sharratt	Graduate Teaching Assistant

Associate member
Dr Paul Brassley	Honorary University Fellow	Lazenby House
Dr Allan Butler	Research Associate
Dr Paul Cleave	Honorary Research Fellow
Professor Malcolm Cowburn	Honorary Professor of Criminology Sex offenders, prison, diversity, research ethics
Dr Lewis Coyne	Honorary Research Fellow Existential phenomenology (esp. Heidegger and Jonas); bioethics; environmental philosophy; philosophical anthropology	Amory
Emeritus Professor Grace Davie	Emeritus Professor of Sociology
Professor Jane Elliott	Professor (Sociology) Gender, ageing, narrative, longitudinal, mixed-methods, well being, gender pay gap.
Dr Keith Howe	Senior Research Fellow	Lazenby House
Emeritus Professor Susan Kelly	Professor (Sociology) Mainstreaming genomics, consent, non invasive prenatal testing, sociology of diagnosis, 100K Genomes Project	Byrne House
Mr Chris Lockyear	Former Philosophy MA graduate and General Secretary Medecins Sans Frontieres International, Geneva
Dr Luis Eduardo Luna	Honorary Research Fellow
Dr Kate Marx	Honorary Research Fellow
Professor Andrew Pickering	Professor	Amory
Dr Hilary Wheaton	Associate Member

Affiliates
Professor Luna Dolezal	Professor (Philosophy) Applied phenomenology, philosophy of embodiment, philosophy of medicine, medical humanities
Dr Alexander R. E. Taylor	Senior Lecturer in Communications

PhD students
Juan Diego Bogotá	PhD Student
Yiyang Gao	PhD Student
Ana Lucia Estrada Jaramillo	PhD Student
Cathrin Fischer	PhD Student
Sarah Heaney	PhD Student
Kris Hill	PhD Student
Ahmet Karakaya	PhD Student
Boglarka Kiss	PhD Student
Benedict Lane	PhD Student
Sian Moody	PhD Student
Sergio Sorcia Reyes	PhD Student
Michelle Szydlowski	PhD Student

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